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Belgarathian

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  1. What goes around comes around
  2. I really hope the render ends up being the final... Damn that's sexy. Also... RX 3080 XT... Liking RX and XT, but where does the 30 come from. Are they trying to hoodwink Nvidia like they did Intel?
  3. And the USA, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and probably everyone else that can doesn't? ... I'd rather no-one is spying on me with hardware backdoors and mandatory security vulnerabilities thanks. I mean the USA doesn't exactly have a great track record with handling private and sensitive information... I've got my money on Trump starting WW3 when he gets offended by Putin or Jinping and just:
  4. Still cooler than an i9-9900k with +100mhz OC
  5. Somehow AMD will beat Intel to market with USB4 baked into a chiplet given Intel's recent track record. /sarcasm
  6. Check out the Audeze iSine LX with the Bluetooth adapter cable for $249.
  7. Wanna know my search history for free...? 60% Pornhub, 30% how to remove strange viruses, 10% facebook and LTT. ? It's a joke people.
  8. As far as we can see all AMD GCN cards have very good compute power... crypto mining is a good example of that. RX performed well for gamers and compute alike, and Vega has been very successful for compute workloads.
  9. I'm not sure... To my knowledge it's not a restriction of OLED. I was under the impression that the reason iPads aren't OLED yet is the cost of an OLED screen of that size. Probably not such a big deal running into 2020 as the cost has likely decreased significantly since they would have had those in development.
  10. Well money aside (licensing fees for Lightning acessories), the reason they designed it was they wanted a port that was durable, thin, and user-friendly which USB-C mostly is. They could also replace the fees earned off Lightning by locking devices that don't use their chipsets like the LAM2 chip for external audio processors in Lightning connector headphones which they could easily adapt to USB-C. However with the onset of BT 5.0 and 5.1, I don't see wired headphones continuing to be a thing for mobile applications (unless you're using a DAP).
  11. Apple is reportedly testing an iPhone with USB-C instead of it's propriety Lightning connector. I'd say it's a safe bet that the replacement iPhones coming will forgo the Lightning connector for USB-C given the move to USB-C for all other Apple devices. As a long-time Apple user, I'm excited for the move. There are a lot of great USB-C devices out there and since accessory manufacturers tend to follow Apple's lead it will hopefully lead to a wider range of USB-C accessories for all phones, computers, etc. Now we just have to get them to update all their keyboards, mice, and other first party accessories to USB-C. P.S While you're at it Apple, please give VRR 120hz screens https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-30/apple-is-said-to-prep-new-3-d-camera-for-2020-iphones-in-ar-push
  12. Just buy the Ryzen processor that fits under your $200 budget. I'd personally wait for the 3000 series as it looks like it will be a significant upgrade for gaming with IPC improvements and clock speeds. I'd go Ryzen 2600 if I was going to buy now.
  13. I would say it's inevitable... I'd also say this interview from CES 2019 alludes to it. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13909/ces-2019-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su
  14. Lisa has basically confirmed that there will be up to 16c/32t Ryzen processors in this interview: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13909/ces-2019-amd-ceo-dr-lisa-su
  15. Somewhere in AMD they'll have an engineering sample of a SoC using Zen + Vega on HBM2.
  16. It's a combination of the following having weaker performance than predicted, rather than just one: Chinese gaming card sales Data center Turing card sales Excess inventory
  17. It's literally the first sentence of the opening paragraph and quoted directly from the release in my post.
  18. The best indicator IMO is a well thought through and communicated growth strategy and a stellar leadership team with a history of success.
  19. AMD almost completely dodge the bullet on this one. Lucky break!
  20. Very true... It's also a good idea to look at 12 month and 5 year trends.
  21. Nvidia has cut revenue projections for quarter 4 of this financial year by $500m stating that the reason for the recast of projected revenue is slower sales in the Chinese gaming market and excess mid-range inventory left over from the crypto boom slowing the sales of Turing GPUs. So to put it in Jensen's own words, "underwhelming... the performance is lousy and there's nothing new". Nvidia should have expected this outcome when consumer pricing for the new Turing architecture took such a large leap that supply and demand relationship is elastic (as it's a luxury good), and the performance benefit in most cases isn't significantly better to justify the price increase unless ray tracing gives you wet dreams. I mean that's economics 101. After the announcement Nvidia shares predictably dropped ~13.5% in value closing out the 28th Jan 19 with a market cap of $84b down 44% since Oct 2nd, 2018. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-updates-financial-guidance-for-fourth-quarter-of-fiscal-year-2019
  22. Tax is used to to pay for public services where a commercial model would fail. For instance, schooling & education, universal healthcare, public spaces and parks, police, fire crews, aged care and pension, rubbish collection & cleaning, sewage and water to and from your property, and sickness and health benefits. Under a no-tax policy this would either have to be funded differently, or it would cease to exist. Can you imagine a world where it's pay-as-you-go... Having to direct deposit $1,000,000 into the account of the police before they'll investigate who stole your car or you have a splinter removed at the hospital and get charged $30,000 as you leave (?)? No parks or roads because it would be too hard to police who pays... Because there wouldn't be a Government so corporations (who wouldn't cooperate) wouldn't have a universal payment mechanism to facilitate seamless driving down different streets and tolling the person doing so. Affordable public transport also wouldn't be a thing as it's subsidised. Basically if you think of everything you use that you don't have to pay for would likely either cease to exist or receive no upkeep and maintenance. To bring it back to the topic at hand, in this case the tax payer money was used to fund the UFB rollout because under the current model at the time investment wouldn't have happened fast enough, or it wouldn't have happened at all and the UFB meant better access to knowledge and education, more hi-tech jobs, and more hi-tech exports for New Zealand which would all generate more tax revenue in the future. Also men with guns wouldn't show up... Our police aren't armed with deadly weapons (unless you have one, then the armed squad shows up), New Zealand got really angry when one tasered a feral goat https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/105739474/police-release-distressing-video-of-officer-tasering-feral-goat-13-times. You will however be required to show up to court and could go to jail for a few years.
  23. I feel ya. My next door neighbour gets fiber but I'm the first rural house out of the township, so I don't. I have decent VDSL though being basically next to the node with a fiber back haul. The banks peninsular fiber cable runs through my front lawn as well ?
  24. You've got 325 million people and higher population density compared to New Zealand. Not to mention you already have the fiber backbone across the country to support it. The problem you have is politicians bought by telcos, 50 years of policy setting paid for by telcos, and state regulation to top off the terrible cake with some icing. A starting point would be mandating that all ISPs must wholesale their network and then set caps on what the ISP can charge per connection. It would be a safe bet to say that it's cheaper for the telcos to keep you on your aging copper network and to continue to oversell your local exchange for ADSL and VDSL services than to make the investment in laying fiber. Some states/cities have tried to provide municipal broadband but got sued to oblivion by Comcast, etc. and prevented/blocked by the FCC
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